Pupils at a North Somerset school received a culinary taste of the war as part of their Remembrance Day commemorations.

A World War II lunch was served up in the canteen at St Katherine's School, Hame Green, near Pill, offering dishes eaten regularly during the rationed wartime years.

The dinners, cooked by canteen staff, included winter vegetable pie, curried carrots, blanquette of chicken, and puddings of celebration trifle and apple fruit cake.

Pupils also put up a net on the ceiling of the canteen and filled it with 10,000 poppies which they had made themselves.

As well as coming to class in clothes from the 1930s and 1940s, students wrote essays, poetry and created pieces of art and videos focusing on the significance of Remembrance Day.

Teacher Jo Jefferson, who led the project, said: "We have been really impressed with the depth of understanding and empathy that is apparent from the students' writing.

"Students throughout the school have put a huge amount of thought into their work on this project, many of them also relating it to current day warfare as well as the two world wars."

The school has been shortlisted for a national business award for its catering service.

It is one of just four schools across the UK to be nominated for a British Educational Suppliers Association award in the school catering category.

Successful nominees are required to demonstrate a commitment to healthy eating and value for money.

Earlier this year, St Katherine's was the first secondary school in the country to achieve the Food for Life silver award.